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Hi,
I’m sure your Sister is going to enjoy the wonders of a faster internet connection, she of course will most likely be able to watch videos now, and most likely learn what it is like to “surf the net”.

I have a friend that is still on dial up, she lives a long way from nowhere really and is very lucky to have that. She is only able to see blogs that don’t have any photos, and she can’t watch videos because there is no speed. But at least she has e-mail and we do have a lot of conversations through that. 😀

That’s nice. Technology can really help us stay connected. I don’t think we have to worry about movies, videos or pretty much anything else. Though she has found “The Facebook” and is quite happy with that.

Ha Ha! My favourite IT story was phone support for my mother. She was having problems and when I asked her what she was trying to do, she said the ‘pig’ wasn’t working… turned out she was trying to use the ‘mouse’ upside down… 😉

One of my earlier post referenced an incident in which she cancelled cable. The company called her to offer some super great deal to turn it back on, but they made the mistake of asking her why she turned it off. She replied, “To get the devil out of my life.” They just hung up. What’re are you going to say to that?

One of my sons lives in China and he said in that some towns/villages are leapfrogging tech levels. The first telephone systems some cities are getting is wireless.. Just thought that made for interesting chatter…

I’ve never had any problems with my mouse, but recently my computer overheated when the hamster who runs the wheel that powers my blower motor went on strike. I guess I’ll have to give him a raise after all!

Two years ago I would have been laughing if I had told myself I was going to be using this for any thing more than e-mails.
I always thought my anger of technological speed and lack of in person conversation would lead to the lack of intimacy with natural life and people. I was right. If any disagree….check the number of friends on facebook with the amount of people that were at your last birthday party. Atleast the computer will remind them that it’s your B-day.
These days, it is a necessary evil that we all carry and your sister will grunt and groan into this next age with the rest of us.

I have a sister like that too. She had an e-mail account and that’s about all she could do: e-mail at the library. I then gave her a second-hand laptop I bought so she wouldn’t cancel her account and not have to GO to the library. I’ve heard from her once since Thanksgiving. That worked out well, wouldn’t you say.

I shudder to think of all the internet support calls I have taken in my life. Whether the issue be a caps lock key that SOMEHOW got pressed, or a defetivecoffee cup holder that kept breaking off, or roast squirrel on the line… They are all priceless.

I feel your sister’s pain, believe me. I have my own site, blog, etc. I use the net daily. Yet there are times when the whole thing seems to be a mysterious black whole that escapes my grasp of understanding. *sigh* ‘Tis life.

Very funny. 😀 Shades of teaching my mom. Sometime in her mid 80’s she got a computer. I spent several days working with her on how to use it. One day she called I had to come over. Her computer wasn’t working. When I got there it didn’t take long to figure out why. She couldn’t find the power button. It went downhill from there. 😉

atleast 8 years back desktop computer arrived at my home. My dad operated it too for a while.

One fine day, he used it for some time and then switched if off. Fearing the worst, I asked him to show how he achieved this.. What he showed made me laugh and nervous at the same time. Apartenly he switched off the monitor and then turned off the mains in which pc was connected. 🙂

I loved reading this. Although not a complete technophobe, I must admit I didn’t know what a blog was until about two days before I started mine! I really don’t expect you to do it (it’s strange when you feel forced into writing something on someone else’s subject!) but just thought I’d let you know I’ve tagged you in this: http://mummybigbum.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/tag-time/
Hope I get to read your answers, but you’re under no obligation to take part!

OMG … I read your posts and I think … were we hatched from the same egg? My sister – same exact thing. I remember for Christmas we wanted to get their kids Kindles. We don’t usually spend that much money, but since both she AND her husband are still in like 1970 something, their kids … well, they are technologically left behind. (I had to have this long talk with her to allow her 17 year old son to have a Facebook, but that’s another story). Anyway, I called and asked if it would be OK. She didn’t even know what it was. She was like, isn’t that one of those things you put songs on? I was like, “No, that’s an iPod.” She’s like, “O yeah, I think I’ve heard of that.” Scary stuff.